shipkit-plan

An implementation-planning guide that turns a feature specification into a detailed, checked sequence of development tasks. It also checks project context, such as the technology stack and architecture, before planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a feature specification to plan how to build the feature, including technical decisions and any needed checks for user-interface-heavy work.
Why use it?
It helps prevent plans with missing foundations, unexplained steps, poor awareness of the existing codebase, or incomplete feature coverage.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stefan-stepzero/shipkit/shipkit-plan
Any agent
npx skills add stefan-stepzero/shipkit --skill shipkit-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stefan-stepzero/shipkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,519 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00037 $0.06519
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.03259
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00652

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0bb14f407de0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipkit-plan scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

install/skills/shipkit-plan/SKILL.md · 705 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 705 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

shipkit-plan - Implementation Planning with Failure Mode Prevention

Purpose: Transform feature specifications into validated implementation plans that prevent common planning failures: orphaned foundations, magical steps, codebase blindness, and incomplete coverage.


When to Invoke

User triggers:

  • "Plan how to build this"
  • "Create implementation plan"
  • "How should we implement this feature?"
  • "Design the technical approach"

After:

  • /shipkit-spec has created specification for the feature
  • Feature is ready for implementation planning

Prerequisites

Check before starting:

  • Spec exists: .shipkit/specs/todo/[feature-name].json or .shipkit/specs/active/[feature-name].json
  • Stack defined: .shipkit/stack.json (from shipkit-project-context)

UI-Heavy Feature Check:

  • If spec describes significant UI/UX, check if architecture.json has UI patterns or stack.json has a frontend framework
  • If neither exists, warn: "This feature has significant UI — consider running /shipkit-engineering-definition first to define UI patterns"
  • Do NOT block on prototyping — proceed with planning

Optional but helpful:

  • Architecture decisions: .shipkit/architecture.json
  • Data contracts: .shipkit/engineering-definition.json (see components[].dataContracts)

Arguments

If $ARGUMENTS is provided (e.g. /shipkit-plan recipe-sharing), use it as the spec name. Try to read .shipkit/specs/todo/$ARGUMENTS.json or .shipkit/specs/active/$ARGUMENTS.json. If found, skip spec selection and proceed to Step 1 Question 2 (Plan Detail). If not found, tell the user: "No spec found matching '$ARGUMENTS'. Available specs:" then list what exists and let them choose.

If $ARGUMENTS is empty, proceed normally from Step 1.


Process

Completion Tracking

After selecting spec and reading context, create tasks:

  • TaskCreate: "Read context + codebase scan (parallel agents)"
  • TaskCreate: "Architecture anti-pattern check"
  • TaskCreate: "Archive existing plan (if exists)"
  • TaskCreate: "Generate plan JSON"
  • TaskCreate: "Run 6 validation checks"
  • TaskCreate: "Write plan to disk"

Read the full file on GitHub · 705 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 705 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 0bb14f407de0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shipkit-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository stefan-stepzero/shipkit (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 6,519 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.